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Help reading celiac test results

I keep seeing things about IgA deficiency but thought that would mean low IgA result. I can't seem to find anything if it seems that my IgA test is high at 3.55 if it's supposed to be .90 or less. Anyone know what this means?

--than what you have there qualifies as a positive transglutaminase IgA test.

As the transglutaminase IgA is the least sensitive but the most specific serologic marker in a celiac panel--and is the test most closely correlated with villous damage due to antibody activity in the small intestine--this strongly suggest you have celiac.

You could confirm with an endoscopy with small intestinal sampling--although you'd want to make sure if that was done that a goodly number of samples were taken at various sites, as the damage from celiac, especially early, can be patchy and not easy to find. But a gluten free diet would certainly be in order; it couldn't hurt you and it might well help you. (I imagine you only had these tests done do to some sort of symptomology.)

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